0Move Slowly and Make Things
2025-05-21 •
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The text explains the process of randomizing grouped results in a database query using Eloquent subqueries. It provides a contrived scenario of building a movie recommendation app and explains the SQL query and Eloquent query to a...
0PhoenixTest foot guns
2024-07-18 • elixir software testing phoenix phoenix liveview
The text discusses the frustrations of writing LiveView feature tests and the use of the PhoenixTest library to make the process more enjoyable. It also highlights some pitfalls encountered and their workarounds.
0Weeknotes: Claude
2023-03-05 • productivity book weekly notes cats
The author reflects on a week of low productivity due to post-covid slump, but managed to create a solution for iOS notifications and worked on a project called Hap. The book of the week was 'Company of One' and the author acquire...
0The Complexity Halo
2023-03-03 • data analysis problem solving complexity
The author discusses the concept of 'The Complexity Halo' where after working on a complex problem, one tends to over-complicate the next one. They suggest asking specific questions about the current task to avoid disappearing dow...
The author caught Covid after three years of avoiding it, and spent the week dealing with symptoms. They also transitioned their website to a new platform and made progress on long-standing tasks. The author also found a relevant ...
The author shares their weeknotes, discussing their work on Hap, a real-time monitoring tool, and their efforts to find a new contract. They also talk about their struggles with networking, updating their GitHub, and their reading...
0Organising Ecto schemas
2023-02-13 • elixir data access schemas phoenix
The text discusses the organization of Ecto schemas in a Phoenix application, highlighting the difficulty in distinguishing between schemas and data access modules within a context. The author suggests creating a separate schemas ...
The text discusses the naming conventions for Elixir Phoenix context functions when creating and updating resources using changesets. It provides code examples and explanations for creating and updating user resources, as well as ...
0How to Bypass The Git Pre-Push Hook
2022-03-22 •
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0Building Happy Stack: Naming Things
2021-03-21 • laravel
The text discusses the challenges of naming things in a project, particularly in relation to retrieving the status of products. It highlights the complexity of product lines and the need for a consistent nomenclature. The author u...
0Building Happy Stack: Notifications
2021-03-14 • laravel
The author discusses the decision to focus on email notifications for the Happy Stack platform, but also adds support for other notification channels behind the scenes. This approach makes it easier to add new channels and avoids ...
The text discusses the challenges of using TypeScript's path mapping feature to solve the problem of relative imports. It explains the issues with the feature and provides solutions for configuring path mappings for JavaScript and...
0Check a Date With Chai
2020-08-01 •
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0Verify a Checksum
2020-07-30 •
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0MongoDB ObjectId Timestamp
2020-07-28 •
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The text explains how to use TypeScript with Gatsby, highlighting the shortcomings of the official solution and providing a better way to run Gatsby on ts-node for proper type-checking and TypeScript support in Gatsby's configurat...
0Nested Optional Chaining in JavaScript
2020-07-17 •
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The text explains how to customize Decap CMS previews in Gatsby by using a JavaScript module. It provides examples of creating a custom article preview, populating the preview template, and setting the article title and body.
0Rounding Errors in JSON Schema Validation
2020-07-15 •
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